"Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing."

-- A. O. Scott

#Real Quotes #Touching Quotes #Directors Quotes

“You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.”
“If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections”
“I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. Itâ€™s not even close.”
“It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doingâ€”it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.”

Source : Medea ch. 10 (1996) (translation by John Cullen)
“Music was not invented by the composer, but found.”
“Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.”
“Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.”
“I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want to transcribe your message; I want to talk to you. And that kind of freaks people out a bit. They go, 'Oh, who has time to talk?' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm gonna make time.”

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